Arsenal have arrived in the Netherlands to find that spring is here. Whether Mikel Arteta and his players are capable of moving forward into the light remains to be seen.
It was not long ago that the Champions League represented merely a single strand of a multi-dimensional season for Arsenal.
Less than two months ago, Arteta’s team were alive in four competitions. Now, arguably, just one remains.
Find a way past PSV Eindhoven — second in the Dutch league — over two legs in the coming nine days and Arsenal can still save this season.